i have only hunted once with dogs and when we hunted it was in north western nebraska and we would get horses and let the dogs go and we would just ride around untell we hear the dogs the just follow the noise of the barks and we would get 3-5 coyote a day

I just found this post and have to respond to it. In Vt. every year they hold a coypte hunt and there's a few of the guys that use dog's to do it. Each dog has a radio collar and they wait on the roads in thier trucks on passing points on opposit sides off the areas being pushed. They can tell where the dogs are all the time and when they hear them heading at them they're out of the vehicle and stepping off the road to catch them running across the open areas before the roadways. These are all class 4 roads and out of the way. Dogs work for them.

Elk have been killed close to roads where they could be loaded whole into the bed of a pickup. But it doesn't happen often and I'm not sure that is the experience that I long for. The type of elk hunting that I prefer requires rigorous physical exertion that can cripple someone who is not in shape. Being a college hockey player I have to be in at least fair physical condition most of the year but when one of my buddies got back from the Navy Seals he changed the way I think about physical...